News clarification

A Dec. 27 article about Waterloo, Ont., resident Helmut Oberlander being once again stripped of his Canadian citizenship by the federal government over his connection to a Nazi death unit during the Second World War referred to Oberlander as a Ukrainian Canadian. In fact, Oberlander, who was born and lived in then Soviet Ukraine, is of German heritage. Oberlander, now 88, has long maintained that he was conscripted under duress at age 17 to serve as a translator with the Nazi death squad — the EK10A, which operated behind the German army’s front line in the eastern occupied territories.

A Dec. 27 article about Waterloo, Ont., resident Helmut Oberlander being once again stripped of his Canadian citizenship by the federal government over his connection to a Nazi death unit during the Second World War referred to Oberlander as a Ukrainian Canadian. In fact, Oberlander, who was born and lived in then Soviet Ukraine, is of German heritage. Oberlander, now 88, has long maintained that he was conscripted under duress at age 17 to serve as a translator with the Nazi death squad — the EK10A, which operated behind the German army’s front line in the eastern occupied territories.

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